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Today’s podcast hopefully comes off as short, clear, and reflective. I dig into just how easy it is for us to forget how rich, similar, and yet vastly different the consciousness of another is. Our bias toward our own experience can easily lead us to assumptions that misalign with reality. The antidote is to notice and walk mindfully with this in our pockets. I hope this is useful for you. Thanks...

I rarely talk about my work here, which surprises me because of how much time and mental energy I commit to it. I really enjoy what I do, which makes my lack of talking about it here even more perplexing. Anyways, I try to break that streak in this episode by describing work as it stands now. I hope you enjoy it and find it informative. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take...

Today’s podcast is different from the last. Instead of a topic that is very outwardly oriented, I move to one that is highly inwardly focused. I talk through a recent stressful situation and the decisions I made that helped me navigate it in a short amount of time. I think you’ll find it practical and useful. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is one that a few have asked for but I hadn’t done yet. I share my thoughts on AI today, which are wide ranging when it comes to their potential positive and negative impacts. It’s such a nuanced conversation, which I tried to focus on here and hope comes through. I hope it’s valuable to you and makes you think! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

For some reason, today I found myself thinking about an experience I had at a casino 10 years ago. In the moment, it didn’t feel good, and I was far from the person I wanted to be. It taught me a lot in retrospect, so I wanted to take some time to share it here and talk through what I learned. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a quick review of how life has been for me over the last few weeks. I’ve really boiled down to the essentials, which has been quite peaceful and centering for me. I share what falls into that bucket of essentials and what I’m connecting it to from my past learning and experience. I hope you find it insightful! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Macklemore’s “Good Old Days” is a beautiful song. I was reminded of it this past week, and listening to it a few times since then has really made me think. I wanted to share some of the reflections I’ve experienced here, so here we are. I hope you enjoy it and find it thought provoking. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

So much of self help boils down to one general concept. Each person who seeks to influence in the space has their own flavor of it, but it’s their brand of the same. I share more about what I mean by this here, along with some details of my journey in this space. I hope you find it thought provoking! Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Oh how I miss my old home, and yet I know I will say the same thing about my current home upon returning to my old home. These bittersweet emotions are a lot to bear, which leads me hear. Perhaps sharing them with you might help. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

It’s so easy to overcomplicate this life. Honestly, it’s in the interest of a lot of people for you to feel overwhelmed, too, which doesn’t make it any better for us. Nevertheless, we can always simplify. That’s the point of today’s episode, which I hope you enjoy and find refreshing. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and pl take care.

Inspired by some work professional development reflections that I engaged in over the weekend, I dig into some key principles and my approach to reflection. I share why it’s important, how to manage the proper balance between learning a reflecting, and other deeper pieces related to those topics. My guess is that you’ll find at least one piece of valuable insight here. Thanks for listening. As alw...

Some moments in life spring a thought that hits us so deep that we have to just sit and marvel at it. This happened to me Sunday night on a walking escalator in an airport of a city I wouldn’t have imagined being in 8 years prior. How utterly fascinating this thing called life can be. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Despite how busy and at times tiring the last week of travel for work was for me, I came home feeling a strong sense of fulfillment and gratitude. I’ve noticed just how good I have it with work as I’ve lived and seen more of the world, which I describe in greater detail in this episode. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

These past two months have been a wild ride, but in the best of ways. Eight plane rides, three continents, a move out, a move in, two visits from friends, and many pieces of furniture later, I take some time to take stock of it all here. I connect the dots to a moment I shared with my wife many years ago in the city where I record this, seeing how things have come full circle in the most fortunate...

Today’s podcast is the second part of a recording of my latest Substack post, where I wrote out my takeaways from quarter two of this year. From the fast and heavy realizations that come during a power outage to AI to relationship advice, I hit a wide range of learnings once again. I hope you at least a few pique your interest. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is a recording of my latest Substack post, where I wrote out my takeaways from quarter two of this year. From the price of ice cream in New York City to what sits at the base of the self, I hit a wide range of learnings here. I hope you at least a few pique your interest. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

The weight of time and the end that is to come appears so burdensome, sparking anxiety and fear in most of us. It is so tempting to avoid it, but there are alternatives that give us so much more if we take them seriously. I share a new frame for how to approach these emotions, providing a possible antidote that frees us to love and seize the moment. I hope it opens your mind to a useful reflection...

I’ve been asking people what the best days of their lives were over the last few weeks. It’s a question that provokes some quality reflection, which is why I decided to bring it here to the podcast. I share my best day, a bit about why, and what I’ve heard from others. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

Today’s podcast is the first of two episodes in which I read my latest Substack post, my quarter one review. This was a new experience for me in some ways, as I made an explicit shift in where I would place my focus at the start of the year. I hope you enjoy it and find some value in the lessons I share. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

I, like perhaps everyone, find myself reminiscing from time to time. Reliving past experiences opens parts of my identity that used to be so much more prevalent than they are today. Experiencing a sense of nostalgia and longing for those times is not uncommon, and yet I realize it’s a bit of a trick played by my mind when I’m able to step back and observe it from a distance. I share a bit about th...

Although I haven’t had the instagram app on my phone since 2019, the platform is still ubiquitous in the world around me. I get multiple instagram videos sent to me per day, which leads me to opening them in my browser. I watch and respond to the sender, and I often find myself perusing through other posts when this happens. This time perusing, perhaps 5-10 minutes at the minimum on each occasion,...

Today I reflect a bit on our physical bodies and the ways we get to a great physique. I don’t focus on the technical pieces of this, but instead I turn our attention to the mindsets that go into building and maintaining a healthy body and a great physique. I hope it gets you to think about your body and health in a bit of a different way than usual. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ an...

Today’s podcast is simple, but its implications carry much more weight. I start each day by reading for 10-25 minutes, and it has been a transformative change for me to adopt. I share why in this episode while sharing a bit about the joys of reading. I hope you enjoy it and find it valuable enough to consider a similar habit for yourself. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please ta...

My wife and I recently used a large language model to help us verify our thinking about taxes. It did some good work quite quickly, but it ended up making quite a big mistake. I share a bit about this experience and the reflections it provoked in me. I hope they prove interesting and valuable to you as they did for me. Thanks for listening. As always, Much Love ❤️ and please take care.

How to resolve conflicts and challenges in relationships is a question we’ve been trying to deal with since the dawn of time. Two people who are different are always going to see things differently, so the conflicts and challenges themselves are inevitable. However, we have a say in how well we address them and whether they become productive for us, moving us toward greater connection and understa...